Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

Overview

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The story centers on Ai, a teen pop idol transitioning to a recording career, whose life unravels amid fixation from a obsessive convenience store clerk, leading to themes of distorted self-perception, narcissistic delusions, and violent events.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 24, 2002

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Kokuei Company,Japan Sky Way,Endless

Cast

Ayaka Maeda,Tsubasa Akimoto,Kiyoko Negishi,Tetsuaki Matsue,Hiroyuki Ukemori,Yûki Ariga,Michinori Toyoda,Yoshikawa Momotaro,Eiji Nakamura,Masahiro Todaand 14 more

Director

Toshiki Satō

Writer

Michinori Toyoda,Shinji Imaoka,Masahiro Kobayashi,Yoshikazu Takeuchi

Producer

Keiko Satô,Kazuto Morita,Toshihisa Tsunoda,Hajime Zhang

Cinematography

Yasuhito Hironaka

Music

Isao Yamada,Michinori Toyoda

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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